Recent literature citations by opinion writers include “Lord of the Rings,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Tag Archives: Tell-Tale Heart
Vlad’s Black Riders, Trump’s Tell-Tale Heart
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Marcotte, Edgar Allan Poe, Greg Olear, J.R.R. Tolkien, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lord of the Rings, Secret police, Trump trials, Washington Irving Comments closed
To Understand America, Read Gothics
In a course on American supernatural gothic fiction, I argue that Poe pushed back against the Enlightenment and Hawthorne against Puritanism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Birthmark, Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe, gothic fiction, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown Comments closed
Gothics Speak Truth to Denial
Thursday Thursday morning I delivered the following talk to Sewanee’s Rotary Club. I entitled it “America’s Obsession with Gothic Fantasy, from Poe to Game of Thrones. When you hear someone mention gothic fantasy or gothic horror, what American stories, movies or television shows come to mind? Before I let you answer that question, let me […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Black Cat, Edgar Allen Poe, Enlightenment, Flannery O'Connor, Game of Thrones, George Martin, Good Country People, gothic fiction, It, John Winthrop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Twilight Zone, Young Goodman Brown Comments closed
10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit
Literature is filled with fetish objects that take on outsized significance to various characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma, Great Expectations, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, Prophet's Hair, Rape of the Lock, Salman Rushie, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tom Jones Comments closed
